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YAY! Next chapter is THE chapter! Nah, not the end, just the chapter, you'll have to wait and see, and so will I!... I haven't done it yet...

Oh yeah, remember how I said a few chapters ago how I based a part of the plot off FF:AS? Don't worry about that, but I have question. If anyone knows anything about After Spiral, apart from the characters Dolwa (or Dorwa or something) and Touya, could you please email me about it? I've looked and looked but I honestly can't find any other info on it, and I don't think I'll be able to get it here in New Zealand, even when I do know enough Japanese to read and translate it.

Chapter 6:

Surprise Attack

The day dragged on as Lisa and Kaze sat in the apartment barely speaking. Lisa would occasionally go find chores to do to keep her mind off what they could possibly find while looking for answers about the disappearance of the train. She tried to think of safe logical reasons, like Cid taking it back for repairs or something, but no matter what, her thoughts would drift to something terrible.

Seven o'clock at night was when she approached Kaze.

"The streets calm down, after midnight that would be the best time to go down, what do you think?"

Kaze looked up at her for a moment.

"I don't know your world."

"Oh, right!" Lisa blushed, laughing it off. Before turning away again. "I think I'll have a shower before we leave." she said, half to herself, not expecting Kaze to listen, although he did. He always did.

She left the room, going to the bathroom on the left side of the hallway. She closed the door, turning on the water in the shower, she hung a towel over the top of the glass door. Beginning to strip out of her clothing. The room quite quickly steamed up, and she got into the hot shower, letting the water wash down her back. She hadn't showered since just before the wedding two days ago, she could almost feel the dirt washing off her.

The warmth of the water washing over her somehow reminded her of Kaze. When he had held her when she was frightened, it almost gave her the same warm, safe feeling. She blushed, feeling the need to cover herself up, she shouldn't have started to think of Kaze.

Kaze closed his eyes, listening to the sound of running water coming from the bathroom. Lisa had seemed distracted all day, as if she was nervous or afraid of what they might find. He hadn't thought about what could happen when they went down there to the subway station, but he had to be prepared for anything.

Lisa got out of the shower, wrapping a towel tightly around herself. She opened the door, heading to her room. Deciding to put on the same clothes she had been wearing that day, she dried herself, dressing. Looking down to the floor in the corner of the room where the wedding dress lay, she knew it wasn't good on the floor, and she couldn't stand it there. She rushed quickly out to the kitchen, opening a draw holding plastic, and rubbish bags. She grabbed a huge bag, taking it back to her room and stuffing the wedding dress hastily in. She could throw it out tomorrow. She tied her hair back to it's usual style, going back out to the lounge. She sat down near Kaze, who looked over to her.

"I hope Cid just took the train back for a while." Lisa said, she sounded hopeful "I don't want everyone to go through what they went through last time with Chaos." she looked directly at Kaze "I don't want you to leave again."

she murmured quietly, her voice soft and fragile.

Kaze couldn't just turn away from her painful gaze, their eyes were locked. She seemed so pained saying she didn't want him to go.

Lisa looked wearily at the clock, it read half past twelve in the morning. Kaze immediately knew it was time, and stood up.

"Finally time to leave."

Lisa sighed, picking her keys up from the bench. Her and Kaze silently left, following the same alleyways they had used to get from the subway to the apartment building just the night before.

The trip took longer than the time they ran from the wedding because there was no need to run. They dodged the mud and puddles this time, finally reaching the old underground station at around twenty past one. Carefully descending down the chipped and dirty steps to the station they both froze in shock.

On the ground, beside the tracks was Makenshi, battered and weak, he held himself up by his sword, unsteadily trying to keep his knees from collapsing.

"Makenshi!"

Lisa gasped, stepping forward to help him. She was held back by Kaze though, who grabbed her hand, bringing her back to his side.

"It's a trap,"

he growled, pulling his shotgun from it's holster aiming it at the wall on the other side of the tracks, behind where Makenshi was.

"What are you doing!"

Lisa asked in a panic filled voice.

Kaze kept his aim at the wall, suddenly, out of no where, there came a maniacal laugh, a puppet-like figure emerged from where the gun was pointed. Oscha.

"Well, well. We should have known the Black Wind would still be around when we found Makenshi."

"...We..?"

Lisa asked, she froze up, unable to do or say anything else. Kaze moved closer to her protectively.

"Of course, Oscha-baby wasn't the only one that fell into Chaos."

Just as the voice was heard, Herba came into sight. The appearances of the two had changed somewhat. Oscha's mask was still cracked and broken from the battle with Chaos, revealing an ugly, rather disturbing eye. And the bulb like flower on Herba's head had now blossomed into a fully grown flower.

"You didn't think it was over did you?" Oscha asked, his voice getting higher with each word, Makenshi finally dropped to the floor with a painful slam. "We were the ones that fell into Chaos, it didn't have any effect on us... but unfortunately for you, you aren't going to be as lucky."

"That's right, now with the Omega piece and a little something else, we can revive Chaos, making him far stronger." Herba revealed, smirking.

"The Omega piece from the train? You took it?"

Lisa asked fearfully.

"And don't think you'll be getting out of this," Herba began walking towards her, Kaze switching his aim to her "you were my Hughug-babies meal, and not only did he not get it, he died thanks to you and your mean friends!"

She was only feet away from Lisa, when Kaze stepped in her path.

"Ooh, looks like Magun-baby is quite protective!" with a 'humph' she turned "Oscha-baby, lets go we have work to do, we can deal with these pests later."

"Of course."

Oscha agreed, disappearing into the wall, just as Kaze fired at him. Looking around, Herba had also disappeared. Kaze lowered his gun, putting it back in it's holster. He looked at Lisa, she had a look of shock and fear on her face, she looked up at him.

"They are reviving Chaos?"

tears welled up in her eyes, and began rolling down her checks.

Kaze watched as she began to weep, he wanted to help her, but there was nothing he could do. Nothing but promise the defeat of Chaos, which had great consequences for him. He knew putting an end to Chaos would also end his life, and Makenshi would be there to fight with him, because even while they where greatest rivals, they still couldn't defeat Chaos on their own. Both lives would be lost. Kaze remembered Lisa said she couldn't bare to lose him again, for whatever reason that was he couldn't put her through pain. They would have to get Herba and Oscha before they had a chance to create this new Chaos.

Kaze walked up to Makenshi, lying limply on the floor. Lisa followed close behind, wiping tears from her eyes and cheeks, she tried desperately to calm herself, but so much had happened lately. Too much for her to just stand and handle.

She dropped down beside the battered, white clad swordsman. Suddenly a soft squeak was heard, Crux. She appeared from nowhere, presumably from hiding, landing beside Lisa to help the fallen young man. He smiled at the small child-like creature, as she got down beside him on her hands and knees, looking terribly worried.

"I'll be fine."

he reassured them, looking at Crux, staring helplessly, and guiltily at him. He rolled over, pulling himself up with all his upper body strength, but feeling someone pull his right hand out from underneath him, his left gave way. He tightly closed his eyes, expecting to hit the hard, stone cold concrete, but never did. Looking up to his support, Lisa put on a brave smile through her fears and pain, holding his arm around her shoulders.

"We should get you and Crux somewhere to stay while we figure out what to do."

She looked up at Kaze, who gave her a brief nod of his head. She took her phone from a pocket in her orange blazer, and dialled the Hayakawa's number.

It was around two in the morning, the Hayakawa's had very generously let Lisa, Kaze. Makenshi and Crux stay with them until they decided fully on what they planned to do. Makenshi had been taken to the guests room and gotten bandaged up, Crux refused to leave his side. Kaze was in the living room, along with Lisa. The two barely spoke, but they knew exactly what had to be done to bring down Oscha and Herba, if they didn't in time it wasn't the hope that would be lost though, it would be lives.

Ai and Yu had gone back to sleep, and shortly after caring for Makenshi's wounds so had Mary and Joe. The house was black and soundless. Within a few short hours, though, it would be dawn and that meant either a day of waiting and biding time, or the action and danger of hunting down their once thought to be dead enemies.

Lisa took a deep sigh, as she left the couch, sitting down beside Kaze.

"Thank you .. again." she whispered "For protecting me today."

she smiled, as he looked down at her, although she had no idea whether he could see it or not. It didn't matter. She closed her eyes, leaning against his shoulder, and soon falling into a well needed sleep.

Lisa awoke early, it must have been before everyone else in the house, because there were no sounds of breakfast cooking, or people rushing to get ready for work or school. There was a clock on the wall in the living room, she read it: six fifteen. She turned to Kaze, his eyes were closed, and he seemed to be sleeping, she had never seen him do such a thing. Blushing, she let out a muffled giggle, covering her mouth, it really was strangely cute. Even now in the most troubling of circumstances she still couldn't keep her mind off him, not even for a day. Wondering about how and why he got here, why he was even alive, and why he was beginning to act more and more warmly towards her. It puzzled her, he really was a very mysterious man.

Soon the Hayakawa's awoke, Mary made breakfast, which was eaten by her, Joe, the twins, Lisa and taken to Makenshi's room. Lisa made mental note in her head to ask Kaze later when and even if he ever ate.

Ai and Yu left for school by eight and Joe had to do some check ups at the lab, Mary decided to go with him, and before long Lisa, Kaze Makenshi and Crux were left alone for the day in the Hayakawa's house.

Lisa got a call on her cell phone about midday, checking the screen she noticed it was a call from work, and quickly remembered she hadn't informed them that she had returned from Wonderland. She answered.

"Hello.."

"Miss Pacifist, we can finally reach you, does this mean you've returned? You know you are meant to report to headquarters as soon as you return?"

a male voice lightly scolded on the other end of the phone.

"Yes, I'm so sorry, I completely forgot, but there is some trouble at the moment, it's to do with Wonderland, and-"

was it really such a great idea to be telling everyone? But this man was her boss.

"And what?"

he questioned

"And causes an extremely huge threat to our world Mr Dolwa."

she told him, without a second thought.

"You are involved in this?"

"Yes... I have to help, please understand."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment.

"Do what you must, but be careful, you know you are our best agent."

"Thank you very much."

she said graciously, before hearing the phone being hung up. She sighed, she had completely forgotten about what had once been her first priority.

She got p from the couch, going to the gests room to see how Makenshi was recovering. She knocked, then entered just a few seconds later. Crux sat on a stool beside the bed, watching the sleeping man. His swordsman's attire was draped over a chair at the end of the bed, and his visible chest was covered by cloth bandages. His breathing seemed normal and he looked to be recovering very well.

Lisa decided to leave him to rest, she went back out to the living room, kneeling down beside Kaze.

"Hey." she smiled, getting his full attention "I was just wondering if you had any idea of how long it will take Makenshi to heal?"

she felt pretty stupid asking him. Like he would know, he probably didn't know, and didn't want to know much about the young man at all.

"It won't be long... he is stronger than he looks."

Kaze muttered. Lisa smiled

"I see. I guess you should know after all the fighting you guys have done."

I didn't plan to put Dolwa in After Chaos, so his isn't going to be part of Herba's and Oscha's plans, I just remembered that Lisa has a job, and there might be someone looking for her.